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ShysterBall (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A fantastic story about Ernest Hemingway, his two sons, about a dozen boys from the Havana barrios, and a couple summers of pickup baseball in the early 1940s: He lived and wrote for more than 20 years here at Finca Vigia, a farm on a hill about 30 minutes outside Havana. His two sons from his second marriage, Patrick and Gregory, lived with their mother, Pauline Pfeiffer, in the United States. But...
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BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
photo credit: tonystl My friend Monica recently sent me an interesting article from the Star Tribune to kick off Book Award Season! Since I have readers from around the world, I would love to hear not only how Americans view themselves through literature, but the global perspective, too. And, more importantly, how much should the [...]
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Articles Database (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Writing articles is easy once you learn how. There are plenty of simple strategies to use to write content rich articles that communicate your marketing message. These articles also add value to your product offerings and give your potential customers a taste of what you offer. If you want to write articles that get read though, [...]
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Non Plagiarized Term Papers (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Walt Whitman was a famous American writer. His contribution into the development of American Literature was significant indeed. That is why his poems are included on the list of topics for discussion in many academic institutions. Students may be assigned to write different papers on Walt Whitman, including essays, for American Literature classes. So, if help [...]
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Gadling (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Filed under: Arts and Culture , Blogs , Video , News When Ernest Hemingway lived in his house in Key West, Florida, penning For Whom the Bell Tolls and To Have and Have Not , his cat Snowball must already have been busy procreating. Although Snowball is no longer with us--he was given to Hemingway in 1935--his six-toed offspring still live at the house, along with their other cat buds. In all, there...
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MOLDY CHUM (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
A LOL post about ending a relationship with a sailfish mount that was found in an alley. I like to imagine Ernest Hemingway and baseball great Ted Williams sitting on a boat together, taking turns on the rod, struggling for...
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Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008 NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES The Oregonian Staff HAVANA -- Just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, Cuba once played the role of America's tropical playground. Ernest Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" and six other novels on the outskirts of Havana, and Frank Sinatra rubbed elbows with the American mafia in Cuban casinos. Rich Americans drank mojitos in the mahogany-lined...
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About Cats (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
A Fox News story discloses the end of a long battle between the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum and the federal government, with an agreement issuing the museum an "animal...
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World Hum (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The U.S. Department of Agriculture had talked of fining the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West thousands of dollars a day, claiming the museum couldn’t qualify for a license for the 50 or so cats residing there—descendants of Hemingway’s cat, “Snowball.” Now museum operators have announced they have come to an agreement with the government that allows the cats to stay. Which means the “mildly...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the agreement. It had threatened to fine the museum $200 per day per cat — about $10,000 — saying it didn’t have the proper animal exhibition licence and couldn’t qualify for one, primarily because the animals weren’t enclosed. The museum has installed a fence to keep the animals on the 0.4 hectare property.
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Chaos Theory (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
101 Things Not To Do Before You Die. Also, books NOT to read. Ulysses: "At school I remember my English teacher saying that he knew no one who had managed to get to the end of it. It does sound...
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ITBusiness.ca - Top Stories (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
"You can't be in second gear all the time and be much of a leader," says Pulitzer-Prize winning historian David McCullough. Knowledge workers needed to be energetic and creative, but that's difficult if late nights at work leave you groggy and ill-equipped to deal with your next day's routine.
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Works from Jonathan Ames, A.M. Homes, Sloane Crosley, and Ernest Hemingway will be projected ten stories high onto the Manhattan skyline tonight. Olivia Palermo will take time away from her medical relief work in Darfur to appear on Whitney Port's new MTV show The City , earning $12,000 an episode. Ha, just kidding about the Darfur part. Susan Cheever says that AA founder Bill Wilson was a sex addict....
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ThisNext Blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
2 fantastic guys + a love of all culture (film, art, literature, music) + amazingly soft cotton + unisex styles = Solid Gold Rags . Perry Shimon and Oliver Kupper emerged just two years ago as innovators in the fashion world. They make Ernest Hemingway look hip (which he is, of course) and turn a basic tank or tee into a true fashion statement. Be sure to check out the boys’ ThisNext profile to see...
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Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
I currently teach several sections per year of economics for MBA students. My MBA students are a joy to teach: they are energetic, curious, engaged, and motivated. (And even better, they laugh at my jokes. Most of the time.) But...
